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How Trumpism Will Outlast Trump

Victor Davis Hanson’s latest book, ‘The Counter Revolution,’ provides a definitive account of Donald Trump’s unprecedented political comeback.

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Americans love a comeback kid. It’s why we celebrate Muhammad Ali, who, after being stripped of his title and barred from professional boxing in 1967 for refusing the military draft, returned to reclaim the heavyweight championship in 1974 against George Foreman in the “Rumble in the Jungle.” It’s why we honor people such as Robert Downey Jr., who recovered from drug addictions and arrests to become one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. And, as prolific author and historian Victor Davis Hanson shows in his new book The Counter Revolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement, it’s also why so many Americans find President Donald Trump so compelling.

Though American politics has had its fair share of comebacks — Nixon losing the 1960 presidential election only to win it in 1968; Grover Cleveland losing the presidency in 1888 and then regaining in 1892 — none can compare with that of Trump. Abandoned by many of his allies after the January 6 riot and hounded by a long list of investigations that seemed destined to end his career if not bankrupt him, Trump somehow overcame every doubter and waged a political campaign for the ages that ultimately returned him to the White House. Regardless of how it ends, it’s an incredible story, and Hanson deserves credit for giving us the definitive account.

Remembering Every Scheme To Silence Him

Hanson reminds us that after the results of the November 2020 presidential elections, things looked bleak for Trump. Appointees, both current and former, were competing with each other to prove their disdain for their seemingly ruined president. After the January 6 riots, which were exclusively blamed on Trump even though Nancy Pelosi was on record admitting, “I take responsibility for the security failures of the Capitol that day,” administration officials ran for the doors.

Two days after January 6, Twitter banned Trump “for life” and Facebook followed suit six months later. When Trump tried to switch to the social media app Parler, Amazon, Apple, and Google all removed the app from their app........

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